Brett Favre may be a creaky 39 some days, but the former Green Bay quarterback said he’s still up for the cold. With four games left in the regular season, the Jets could hit some pretty cold and windy conditions for three of them, and Favre said despite the rainy loss to the Broncos last weekend, he’s up to the challenge.

“You can’t afford to go on a two or three game losing streak,” Favre said. “You only play 16 games.”

Favre grew up in Kiln, Miss., a mild southern zone, but made a name on the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field (or FToLF, which is I believe a trademark or something.) He said there is no way to tell whether a player can excel in bad conditions.

“I think it all comes down to the individual himself, first of all,” Favre said. “I never saw snow until I got to Green Bay. It wasn’t like all of a sudden I got off the plane and said, ‘Whoo, my kind of weather.’”

He was asked if age has changed his ability to withstand harsh conditions.

“At some point I’ve got to fall apart, I’m not going to lie to you. It’s like a car, you drive it long enough it’s going to fall apart, you’re going to have a flat tire, somthing’s going to happen. At some point, I’m going to fall apart.

“But right now, I’m still together.”

Here’s the audio on that… The quote is nice, but you have to hear Favre’s intonations on that.

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In other news from Jersey, David Harris and Eric Smith both practiced today.

A couple of players like Kerry Rhodes and Calvin Pace addressed the issue of NFL player safety in the wake of the Plaxico Burress ummm… debacle? mess? What’s a good way to describe that situation?

Rhodes takes his own security people out if he goes someplace. Pace, whose $12 million salary could make him vulnerable to haters, said he likes to play it low-key and not put himself in places where there is a lot of attention.

“Anytime you go out, you’ve got to be careful,” Pace said.

And Rhodes clarified his point about not liking Jay Cutler. He doesn’t just not like getting beat by him, he doesn’t like Cutler, the guy.

And finally, I’d like to say a personal goodbye and thank you to four sportswriters who were let go yesterday in a company-wide layoff. You all might remember Brian Heyman for some of his work on the Jets beat over the years. Here’s the Journal News story on the cuts.